Fox Searchlight has debuted a couple of brand new clips from this week’s new release Tolkien, a film based around the formative years of ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’ author J.R.R. Tolkien. Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins lead the cast of the film.
Credit: Fox Searchlight
Official synopsis: ‘TOLKIEN explores the formative years of the renowned author’s life as he finds friendship, courage and inspiration among a fellow group of writers and artists at school. Their brotherhood strengthens as they grow up and weather love and loss together, including Tolkien’s tumultuous courtship of his beloved Edith Bratt, until the outbreak of the First World War which threatens to tear their fellowship apart. All of these experiences would later inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-earth novels.’
Related: Watch the first trailer for Tolkien
Also amongst the cast of the film are Colm Meaney, Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson, Tom Glynn-Carney, Craig Roberts, Laura Donnelly, Genevieve O’Reilly, Pam Ferris and Derek Jacobi. Tolkien is directed by Dome Karukoski from a script by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford, and it hits cinemas on Friday 3rd May.
Here are the two new clips.
